207 results for “haematoma”
40y · Male·Complications of head injury
…, acting in self-defence, struck Ross with a wooden implement, causing a head injury with acute subdural haematoma. Ross was transported to hospital where he underwent emergency haematoma evacuation but suffered post-op…
38y · Male·acute on chronic right hemisphere subdural haematoma
Martin Towns, 38, died from acute-on-chronic subdural haematoma after a fall while severely intoxicated on 30 December 2015. He had a chronic subdural haematoma from an…
69y · Female·subdural haematoma
…n problems and vomiting. CT imaging at the emergency department missed a subtle right tentorial subdural haematoma on initial scan, though the radiologist later acknowledged this was difficult to detect. A C3 vertebral …
87y · Female·left frontal temporal subdural haematoma following closed head injury sustained …
An 87-year-old woman on irreversible anticoagulation suffered a subdural haematoma from a fall. She presented to a community hospital lucid with stable vitals. A CT scan confirmed acute s…
51y · Male·Traumatic brain injuries resulting from blunt head trauma: multiple calvarial an…
… struck by a baseball bat multiple times by his fiancée's grandson, resulting in extradural and subdural haematomas and pneumocephalus. He underwent emergency neurosurgery and was managed in ICU with mechanical ventilat…
73y · Male·Acute on chronic subdural haematoma due to recent head trauma in the context of …
…he head by another patient and became unresponsive. CT imaging revealed a 30mm acute-on-chronic subdural haematoma. He was intubated but his condition deteriorated, and he died on 15 March 2006. The coroner's findings s…
84y · Female·Alzheimer's disease with subdural haematoma from traumatic head injury as a cont…
…Betty Reid, aged 84 years with advanced Alzheimer's disease, died from Alzheimer's disease with subdural haematoma from traumatic head injury as a contributing factor. She sustained an unwitnessed fall on 1 November 202…
65y · Male·Acute on chronic subdural haematoma caused by accidental falls
Steven Basil Bradley, 65, died from acute on chronic subdural haematoma following an unwitnessed fall in hospital. He had metastatic prostate cancer, ischaemic heart disease, a…
83y · Male·Acute subdural haemorrhage following a fall
…brain was misread as normal by radiologist Dr M., who failed to identify a small (3-4 mm) acute subdural haematoma in the right temporo-frontal region. The patient was admitted for observation and surgical repair of fac…
84y · Female·left subdural haematoma resulting from head injury due to fall from standing
… after slipping on steps at a café in Stanley, Tasmania on 20 October 2021, resulting in a left subdural haematoma. She was appropriately transported to neurosurgical facilities and underwent emergency evacuation of the…
81y · Female·acute on chronic subdural haematoma
An 81-year-old woman with Lewy Body Dementia died from acute on chronic subdural haematoma following multiple falls in aged care. The nursing home had appropriately assessed her as high falls ris…
66y · Male·subdural haematoma from head injury sustained in a fall
…kwards down four steps at a public memorial site, striking his head on concrete. He sustained a subdural haematoma requiring urgent craniotomy. Despite surgical evacuation, he developed elevated intracranial pressure an…
77y · Female·general inanition on a background of dementia, chronic subdural haematoma and ri…
Mrs Ann Perkins, aged 77, died from general inanition with dementia, chronic subdural haematoma, and fractured neck of femur as contributing factors. She sustained an unwitnessed fall at her aged care…
75y · Male·combined effects of subdural haematoma and facial fractures following a fall com…
…isk at the aged care facility. After collapsing and striking his head on a door, he sustained a subdural haematoma and facial fractures, then developed aspiration pneumonia complicated by seizures. Deemed unsuitable for…
57y · Male·Right acute subdural haematoma following a fall
…year-old man with intellectual disability, dementia, and schizophrenia, died from a right acute subdural haematoma following a fall while in supported residential care. He experienced multiple falls over several weeks w…
81y · Male·acute subdural haematoma
… at a shopping centre with head strike to the right parietal region. He presented to the ED with a small haematoma and confusion. The ED team concluded he had a cardiac cause for syncope based on chest pain, referred hi…
62y · Female·subacute subdural haematoma due to a closed head injury sustained in a fall from…
… valve sustained a head injury from a fall. A CT scan on day 5 post-injury identified a small extradural haematoma, but the radiologist (Dr J.) failed to report it, stating the scan was normal. The general practitioner …
93y · Female·Subdural haemorrhage in the setting of a fall (palliated)
… 93-year-old woman with a history of falls was discharged from hospital following treatment for subdural haematoma from a prior fall. Discharge planning included a home assessment by occupational therapy, during which t…
57y · Male·acute subdural haematoma, cause undetermined (could result from trauma, fall, se…
Paul Thompson, aged 57, died from acute subdural haematoma (brain bleeding). He was found unresponsive after an evening of heavy alcohol consumption with his house…
78y · Male·head injury sustained when struck by a car
…d skull fractures. Despite emergency transport to Royal Melbourne Hospital, neurosurgery, craniotomy and haematoma evacuation, he developed progressive intracranial pressure elevation and new parenchymal haemorrhage. He…
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